Michael Sheen
Michael Sheen
Michael Sheen, OBE is a Welsh actor. After training at London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, he worked mainly in theatre throughout the 1990s and made notable stage appearances in Romeo and Juliet, Don't Fool With Love, Peer Gynt, The Seagull, The Homecoming, and Henry V. His performances in Amadeus at the Old Vic and Look Back in Anger at the National Theatre were nominated for Olivier Awards in 1998 and 1999, respectively. In 2003, he was nominated for a...
NationalityWelsh
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth5 February 1969
CityNewport, Wales
By the time you are 30 you are still trying to make your 15-year-old self happy but you are a different person. You need to be brave and let go of that.
I would like to be taller, thinner and more rakish looking.
But obviously, things have changed in many ways since the '50s, when the show is started, in terms of sexuality, and how much access we have to images of it and information about it. But, the same problems always apply. It doesn't matter whether we know a lot more about sex now or if there's a lot more access to it. The same problems of intimacy, of dealing with other people, of connecting and being vulnerable with other people, which is what the show is ultimately about, still applies now, I think.
I'm a big fan of vampire movies generally and that sort of tradition of characters.
I'm a huge fan of science fiction and fantasy - not so much horror because I get a bit scared.
I'm not a Tony Blair impersonator.
In terms of how prudish Americans were in the '40s and '50s, I have absolutely no idea. I do know about the character that I play. And I don't think it's about being prudish. I think it's about trying to balance a sense of control in this man's life.
My own daughter is a big fan of the 'Twilight' stories, the books.
My rule of thumb is that I want to do things I'd like to go and see myself.
My taste in watching things runs from dramas and low-budget films to high-end fantasy/science fiction.
It's funny the more technological advanced everything gets, the more like acting in your bedroom when you're a kid it is.
While I enjoy spending time in L.A., Britain is my home.
Although my family - parents and sister - all work in the personnel management business, their real passion is performing, amateur operatic societies and so on.
As a general thing, I've always been drawn to characters who appear to be one thing on the surface, but are actually something else underneath.